Bryan Chapell Quotes

The reality of the ordinary progress of Christian understanding should not escape our notice: early believers "know no answers"; immature believers "know all the answers"; and mature believers "know the limits of our answers. ~ Bryan Chapell

Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good. ~ Bryan Chapell

Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is. ~ Bryan Chapell

Love for him compels us to live for him. ~ Bryan Chapell

God's care precedes his commands. ~ Bryan Chapell

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God's will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God. ~ Bryan Chapell

The inevitable consequence of obedience without delight is the erosion of holiness. ~ Bryan Chapell

Belief in God's sovereignty coupled with his promises to reward those who diligently seek him (Heb. 11:6) provides even more powerful incentive to pray. ~ Bryan Chapell

Faith results in being faithful despite what comes, not telling God what should come. ~ Bryan Chapell

We sin not because we do not love Christ at all but because we don't love him above all. ~ Bryan Chapell

…The identity I tried to establish by obedience to the Law is dead, the life Jesus lived to fulfill the Law is mine. ~ Bryan Chapell

Sin and Satan deceive our hearts with lies that God is distant. His hand of discipline declares he is never nearer. ~ Bryan Chapell

By praying in Jesus' name, we petition God to make our life shine for Christ's glory and eternity's purposes. ~ Bryan Chapell

Why should we take care to maintain focus on the gospel of grace in our interpretations of Daniel? The first reason is to keep our messages Christian. We are not Jews, Muslims, or Hindus whose followers may believe our status with God is determined by our performance. We believe that Christ's finished work is our only hope. To make Daniel simply an example of one who fulfills God's moral imperatives and thus earns his blessing is essentially an unchristian message. Apart from God's justifying, enabling, and preserving grace, no human can do what God requires to be done. Jesus said, "Apart from me you can do nothing" (John 15:5). Interpretations of Daniel devoid of the enabling grace of Christ - even in its Old Testament forms of unmerited divine provision - implicitly deny the necessity of Christ. ~ Bryan Chapell

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve. I was made weak, that I might humbly learn to obey. I asked for health, that I might do greater things. I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for riches, that I might be happy. I was given poverty, that I might be wise. I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men. I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life. I was given life, that I might enjoy all things. I got nothing that I asked for, but everything that I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I among all men am most richly blessed.[1] ~ Bryan Chapell

We are not to mimic witches spicing their caldrons with a little eye of newt and tail of squirrel when we add Jesus' name to our prayers. ~ Bryan Chapell

Paul preaches without shame in his delivery skills because he trusts that the Spirit of God will use the Word the apostle proclaims to shatter the hardness of the human heart in ways no stage technique or philosophical construct can rival. ~ Bryan Chapell

By preserving a person named Daniel, God was preserving a nation called Israel in order to send a Savior named Jesus to save persons like us and ten thousand times ten thousand more of the same. Daniel's willingness to risk everything to make that redeeming God powerfully known expresses how great and precious is the incomparable grace of God toward those who will trust in him. ~ Bryan Chapell

There is nothing more effective than guilt to get people to obey God's standards, and nothing less efficacious in sanctifying them to God. ~ Bryan Chapell

What a difference it makes in my life and yours when we believe that the trials as well as the accomplishments, the difficulties as well as the joys, are not simply the products of brute forces in the universe but actually are all part of God's eternal plan for his glory and our good. Do we have any assurance that such astounding truths do apply to us? Yes. ~ Bryan Chapell

Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it. ~ Bryan Chapell

Sin gains power over us not by its indomitable force but by our divided heart. ~ Bryan Chapell

Knowledge of our unchanging relationship grants us the will to fight and to reenter the fray when we have fallen, ~ Bryan Chapell

To believe Daniel is writing prophecy, as he claims, and not history, as the level of detail would seem to suggest, would require belief that what is written was supernaturally inspired. And if God has thus spoken, then his Word has far more authority over our lives than we may wish, and his far-reaching knowledge is far more real than we may want on the days that we want to go our own way. ~ Bryan Chapell

Guilt should drive us to the cross, but grace must lead us from it. ~ Bryan Chapell

We know our skills are insufficient for an activity with such vast consequences. We recognize that our hearts are too lacking in purity to lead others to holiness. Honest evaluation inevitably causes us to conclude that we do not have sufficient eloquence, wisdom, or character to be capable of turning others from spiritual death to eternal life. ~ Bryan Chapell

John Calvin said he constantly studied to be simple. ~ Bryan Chapell

Not only do our prayers please God, the Holy Spirit uses them to accomplish heaven's purpose on earth. ~ Bryan Chapell

Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our own. ~ Bryan Chapell

The love we show is the love we know. ~ Bryan Chapell

The efficacy of the truths in God's message rather than any virtue in the messenger transforms hearts. ~ Bryan Chapell

Repetition of a sin is no reason to abandon confession. ~ Bryan Chapell

I think when you get out of the big cities people get really freaked out when they see someone who is on TV, because they're not used to that. ~ Bryan Greenberg

You get weird, funny requests on Twitter. With our fan club, I was seeing a lot of fans were having some issue with the way the fan club tickets were being handled in one of the shows. So I was able to correspond with that fan, and be like, 'Listen, we'll be on it.' ~ Luke Bryan

'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world. ~ Bryan Greenberg

When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters. ~ Bryan Cranston

The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations. ~ Bryan Kest

My thing is, when you put a bunch of rules on a tour, you have to hire three more people to enforce all the rules. So, with me, I want everyone to feel comfortable. It's a lot of little moving parts out here, and little hiccups will come. At the end of the day, the show's going to go on, and I want everybody to truly enjoy it. ~ Luke Bryan

Do you remember why you started playing?"
"Why does anybody play? ... Are you a musician?"
"Yes. ... Yes, I am."
... "Then you know why I play."
... "Because your spirit has to sing. Every musician's heart bears a song from the Creator, and he spends his life trying to duplicate it as an act of worship. ~ Bryan Davis

He laughs like it's the funniest thing he's ever heard. I roll my
eyes and pretend not to notice how very bad he is at dancing or
how adorable he looks when he throws his head back and
chuckles. Luke Bryan comes on the radio. Boy am I in trouble. ~ Elizabeth Nicole

I don't know much, but I like talking to people who know a lot more than I do. ~ Bryan Callen

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them. ~ Luke Bryan

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. ~ Bryan Magee

[N]o lie can live forever... ~ Bryan Stevenson

Their conversations hung like riddles, so obvious to the tellers yet so utterly befuddling to me. ~ Bryan Reardon

I hear the wind call my name
The sound that leads me home again
It sparks up the fire - a flame that still burns
To you I'll always return

I know the road is long
But where you are is home
Wherever you stay-I'll find the way
I'll run like the river-I'll follow the sun
I'll fly like an eagle
To where I belong

I can't stand the distance
I can't dream alone
I can't wait to see you-yes I'm on my way home

Now I know it's true
My every road leads to you
And in the hour of darkness,
Your light gets me through

You run like the river-you shine like the sun
Yeah
You fly like an eagle-yeah you are the one
I seen every sunset and with all that I've learned
Oh, it's to you, I will always, always, return ~ Bryan Adams

When we start understanding that all challenges are really opportunities to learn and grow and become all that we are becoming, which is all being guided by nature and her desire to maintain perfect balance, then what could be wrong? If there is nothing wrong, then the burden of humanity has been lifted from my shoulder and I'm free to be me - to play, to cry, to laugh, to work, to explore, to serve, to unfold and grow. ~ Bryan Kest

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer. ~ Luke Bryan

I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that's what I enjoy the most. ~ Luke Bryan

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move. ~ Bryan Ferry

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go. ~ Bryan Clay

New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This Invisible Government is reactionary, sinister, unscrupulous, mercenary, and sordid. It is wanting in national ideals and devoid of conscience ... This kind of government must be scourged and destroyed. ~ William Jennings Bryan

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared. ~ Bryan Batt

We all have a responsibility to create a just society ~ Bryan Stevenson

Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are. ~ Bryan Kest

We have shot, hanged, gassed, electrocuted, and lethally injected hundreds of people to carry out legally sanctioned executions. Thousands more await their execution on death row. Some states have no minimum age for prosecuting children as adults; we've sent a quarter million kids to adult jails and prisons to serve long prison terms, some under the age of twelve. For years, we've been the only country in the world that condemns children to life imprisonment without parole; nearly three thousand juveniles have been sentenced to die in prison. ~ Bryan Stevenson

Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want. ~ Sabrina Bryan

My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young. ~ Luke Bryan

This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth. ~ William Jennings Bryan

The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow. ~ Bryan Procter

Fuck you fucks and the fucks you fucked in on! ~ Bryan Lee O'Malley

I have a bad habit of inserting my ideas into shots and things. I don't know, I don't hold back on suggesting things, but I don't have any connection to what actually happens, so I'll make a suggestion on something and then just let it go. ~ Bryan Cranston

Don't limit yourself to one thing. ~ Bryan Cogman